Rach On!

What a great Church service yesterday - two little girls were baptized (one parent was Christian, the other Jewish - sound familiar?), my choir did an amazing Shaker hymn for the anthem that really fired people up (as much as Presbyterians can get fired up), and Paul, our Director of Music Ministries played on the new Steinway one of my favorite Rachmaninoff pieces "Elegie." Paul, if you're reading this, you have to tell me where I can get the best recording for this. I know this will sound morbid, but I've told Chris if I meet an untimely end, you have to play this at my funeral (after, of course, attending a wake that will raise the dead!)

And last but not least, the minister mentioned in his sermon one of my favorite theologians/philosophers - Dietrich Bonnhoffer, the German Protestant theologian who was implicated in a plot to kill Hitler and hanged. One of his quotes always sticks in my mind:

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Anyway.....another week begins....